Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Native range 2 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| New South Wales | NSW | AUSTRALASIA |
| Queensland | QLD |
Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.
Where it actually grows measured, from 585 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | 3.9 °C | 9.6 °C | 19.3 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 23.1 °C | 26.9 °C | 30.5 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 651 mm | 1,005 mm | 1,578 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 14 mm | 135 mm | 234 mm |
It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 585 research-grade observations of Ficus rubiginosa that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.
This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.
Also published as 25 synonyms
A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.
- Ficus australis Willd.
- Ficus baileyana Domin
- Ficus ferruginea Desf.
- Ficus ferruginea hort. ex Miq.
- Ficus fulva Hort.Berel. ex Kunth & C.D.Bouché
- Ficus leichhardtii (Miq.) Miq.
- Ficus leichhardtii var. angustata Miq.
- Ficus macrophylla var. pubescens F.M.Bailey
- Ficus muelleri (Miq.) Miq.
- Ficus novae-walliae Dum.Cours.
- Ficus obliqua var. petiolaris (Benth.) Corner
- Ficus platypoda var. leichhardtii (Miq.) R.J.F.Hend.
- Ficus platypoda var. mollis Benth.
- Ficus platypoda var. petiolaris Benth.
- Ficus platypoda var. subacuminata Benth.
- Ficus rubiginosa f. glabrescens (F.M.Bailey) D.J.Dixon
- Ficus rubiginosa var. glabrescens F.M.Bailey
- Ficus rubiginosa var. lucida Maiden
- Ficus shirleyana Domin
- Mastosuke rubiginosa (Desf. ex Vent.) Raf.
- Perula rubiginosa Raf.
- Urostigma ferrugineum Miq.
- Urostigma leichhardtii Miq.
- Urostigma muelleri Miq.
and 1 more.
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
- Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.
We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.